Untitled - Santa Hats

Sandra Civitarese was the daughter of Italian immigrants and grew up in Trail, BC. She received her Fine Arts Degree from the University of Calgary and spent many years working in the Calgary Art Scene as an art consultant, art instructor for the City of Calgary in their Art Centres, as well as maintaining a studio practice. Early in her career she was primarily a painter and worked for many years for the City of Calgary as an art instructor and later began exploring creating with clay. She eventually became a ceramics instructor as well as continuing to teach many of the visual arts including painting and drawing. Civitarese has stated "I was always fascinated with the art of the 1500s Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, plague art of the Middle Ages, and of course Mexican death art." She has moved her studio from Calgary, Alberta to Gabriola Island BC., one of the Gulf islands off the coast of Vancouver Island.